Casio's Rugged Brigade Marching to Verizon Later this Year

Today Verizon Wireless showed off a new Casio G'zOne device called the Brigade. This mil-spec rugged device is a sideways clamshell that has both a numeric keypad on the front and a full QWERTY keyboard inside with larger display. It also offers push-to-talk capabilities in addition to having a 3 megapixel, camera with flash, microSD card support, 2.5mm headset jack, dedicated music and messaging keys, Bluetooth and 3G for data. Verizon Wireless said the Brigade would be available in time for the holidays. Pricing wasn't disclosed.

I've had a Casio Gzone Type-V for about 3 years now. It has always worked no matter what. Sound quality is great and buttons are easy to press. It's a phone that functions as a phone and doesn't break.

Yes, the outside is kinda ugly, but the inside is not bad at all. Seriously reminds me of the env. For folks who don't like the env2 or env3 but can't articulate why, usually its too small or too square or they don't like flat unseparated keys. This phone will be for them.Hopefully it'll be submersible like the other casio phones? Compared to the Convoy, which looks like a ruggedized LG8360. Good phone, but really whats the point of a ruggedized phone if it isn't water resistant? Thats why people got the boulder instead of the adventure, even though the adventure was a better device. This kind of customer wants water resistance.